The word "dopey" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is behaving in a slow, forgetful, or silly way. For example: "My little brother is so dopey sometimes; he can never remember where he puts his shoes."
Blame whoever you like for the demise of manufacturing – dopey bosses not checking their rearviews for the foreign competition, the three recessions of Thatcher and Major, New Labour writing off industry to chase the mirage of a "knowledge economy" – the outcome has been a manmade disaster.
Mr Broderick's air of dopey entitlement is appropriate to the role, but occasionally feels lazy.
A dopey bunch of apple trees can suddenly become a ghostly stand of birch.
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In it the author poured scorn on Europe, an annoyingly fractured continent with its "dopey little countries", "pokey borders", "itty-bitty" languages and "Lilliputian" drinks measures.
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Today they were all at the Traverse, where I began with the madness of puberty and finished with the punishing sanity of yuppiedom .Once and for All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen" is a dopey title about, as you might have guessed, teenagers.
Women and children first The scum of the Earth Not so dopey Patent ending Reprints Related items Conscience clauses: In search of Plan CApr 7th 2005 Reproductive health: Ten years' hard labourSep 2nd 2004The tragedy, according Joy Phumaphi, assistant director-general for family and community health at the WHO, is that saving many of these lives would not be difficult.
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Some of the more dopey assessments of his weight Time magazine two years ago suggested he is among the 100 most influential people on the planet irritate other writers and journalists.
Women and children first The scum of the Earth Not so dopey Patent ending Reprints Related items Human evolution: Games people playJan 20th 2005Bartering for your lifeOne theory is that Homo sapiens had more sophisticated tools, which gave him an advantage in hunting or warfare.
